In an amazing and hilarious interview with noted urban-suburban hip-hop publication the Washington Times (XXL is next week)—whose reporter presumably kept a straight face while transcribing the words of the 50-year-old former Lt. Governor of Maryland who participated in the Glee Club at his catholic high school and was eventually elected student council president and who spent three years as a seminarian in the Order of St. Augustine in the hopes of becoming a priest—Steele told critics to "stuff it."

"We need messengers to really capture that region - young, Hispanic, black, a cross section ... We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-surburban hip-hop settings."

But, he elaborated with a laugh, "we need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets."

And:

"It will be avant garde, technically," he said. "It will come to table with things that will surprise everyone - off the hook."